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Domenic Cicchetti

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Dr. Domenic Vincent Cicchetti, PhD (1937–2019), was a biostatistician most notably known for the development of the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales (VABS) together with his late wife Sara Sparrow, a renowned clinical psychologist at the Yale Child Study Center.

Dr. Cicchetti obtained his BA, MA, and PhD between 1955 and 1965 in social psychology and biostatistics at the University of Connecticut. He later obtained positions as a Senior Research Scientist at the Yale School of Medicine in the Child Study Center and Department of Psychiatry and School of Epidemiology and Public Health. He was an adjunct professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada, and served as a Visiting Professor in the Division of Neuroscience & Psychological Medicine, Department of Public Mental Health, Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine, St. Mary’s Campus, London, England (Øien et al. 2019).

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  • Nordahl-Hansen, A., Øien, R., Volkmar, F., Shic, F., & Cicchetti, D. (2018). Enhancing the understanding of clinically meaningful results: A clinical research perspective. Psychiatry Research, 270, 801–806. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2018.10.069. Psychological Bulletin, 66 1966.

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  • Øien, R. A., Klin, A., Saulnier, C., et al. (2019). In Memoriam: Domenic V. Cicchetti, PhD. 1937–2019. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 49, 3475–3476. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-019-04143-5.

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  • Sparrow, S. S., Cicchetti, D., & Balla, D. A. (1984). Vineland adaptive behavior scales.

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  • Sparrow, S. S., Cicchetti, D. V., & Balla, D. A. (2005). Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales Vineland-II: Survey Forms Manual. Minneapolis, MN: Pearson.

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  1. Department of Special Education, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

    Dr. Roald A. Øien

  2. Yale Child Study Center, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

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Øien, R.A. (2020). Domenic Cicchetti. In: Volkmar, F. (eds) Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6435-8_102506-1

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